Wolfenstein goes 1-dimensional

A coder by the name of Mike Lacher has remade classic first-person-shooter Wolfenstein 3D in
a single dimension, calling it Wolfenstein 1D.

Despite that, it still features health, ammunition, multiple enemies and doors, as well as the classic
sound effects from the game. You control your direction with left
and right, open doors with spacebar, and shoot with the ctrl key.
In fact, it's remarkable how intact the original mechanics are.

"Now, after decades of development, Wolfenstein
3-D has been converted to breathtaking, epoch-making 1-D. You
can now play the game in a single, dazzling one-pixel line," says
the description on the
game's page.

For now, it only seems to be one level of the game. Oh,
and if we're being pedants, then yes, it does have a second
dimension -- which is just one pixel tall. Still, projecting that
onto our screens and quantising it into pixels means you can just
about get away with the characterisation.

Edited by Nate Lanxon

Comments

It's clearly a 2D game. If it were 1D you couldn't move back and forth. In fact, isn't the original 2D? So it's basically just a cool 'skin'.